Jon Voight

Jon Voight is an award-winning American actor and the father of actors James Haven and Angelina Jolie.

Voight’s signature role came as a would-be gigolo in “Midnight Cowboy” (1969). During the 1970s, he portrayed a businessman mixed up with murder in “Deliverance” (1972); a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in “Coming Home” (1978), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor; and an ex-boxing champion in the remake of “The Champ” (1979). Voight’s other film credits include “Heat” (1995), with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro; “Mission Impossible” (1996), co-starring Tom Cruise; “The Rainmaker” (1997); “Ali” (2001), starring Will Smith; and “Uprising” ( 2001).

In 2013, Voight continued his extensive career with the role of gangster Mickey Donovan in Showtime's award-winning series “Ray Donovan,” starring Liev Schrieber. His next film project is J.K. Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” due out November 2016.